THESE SHOULD TAKE YOU AT LEAST 2 HOURS TO READ CHAPTER 10 AND LINKS, AND ANSWER QUESTIONS.

Assignment – read Chapter 10, Ghost Dance Prophecy:  A Nation Is Coming, from An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the Unites States  Another interesting and important chapter for the course.

Read the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948, http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/

The questions have links to several online articles. READ THEM, THEY ARE PART OF THE COURSE MATERIAL.

AND PLEASE FOLLOW DIRECTIONS re writing in your textbook here.

STUDY QUESTIONS:

1.  What was the prevailing myth of the “exceptional” people of the U.S., in the 1960’s, only 70 years after Wounded Knee? Pg 178  Underline it.

2.  How did President Kennedy’s 1963 inaugural speech build on this? Pp 178 to  179. Underline them. In your textbook.

      What is a “trope”? (look up in your dictionary) and write down. In your textbook, next to the word.

3.  When was the Blue Lake returned to the Taos Pueblo Indians? Why? How did it set a precedent for other claimed lands? Pp 179-180.  What is a precedent? Look up and write down, in your textbook.

4.  Trace the history and members of the NIYC from its founding in 1961 to its participation in Alcatraz Island seizure in 1969. Pp 181 to 183. Name the women who also led this movement.

      For amazing photos paste this in your browser:

https://www.google.com/search?q=alcatraz+aim&tbm=isch&source=univ&client=firefox-b-1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiv96y1-pvgAhXDqYMKHXXvBeEQiR56BAgEEBM&biw=1275&bih=619

       Look on your Google map to see exactly where Alcatraz is. What else was located there?         

5.  Read carefully and mark up Pp. 183 to 184 the humorous “Proclamation of the Indians of All Tribes” and write one additional proclamation of your own — in the textbook.

6.  Describe the young Vine Deloria’s early leadership. Pp 184 and 185. What was “The Trail Of Broken Treaties”? See https://www.framingredpower.org/narrative/tbt/

7. Link to and read his/their 20 Point Position Paper, mentioned on page 185:

http://www.aimovement.org/archives/  Be ready to discuss at least one of the points that seems most significant to you.

8.  Describe the struggles and descent of the Sioux peoples as the U.S. abrogated the treaties the Sioux had put their trust in. Pp. 187 to 190. How many treaties did they sign? What was the last one? What does “abrogate”, as a legal tem, mean?

9.  What did the decision of Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock (described on page 189) say?  Read

 also  https://teachinghistory.org/history-content/ask-a-historian/24391

For maps that are helpful see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lone_Wolf_v._Hitchcock

10.  Describe exactly the “logical progression of modern colonialism,” top of page 191, and how the example of the Sioux treatment bears this out.

11.  How did the Viet Nam war resemble the Indian wars, exactly? Pp 192 to 193. What years was that war?

12.  Pages finishing at page 196 – how are the 5 U.S. wars since World War II linked, according to this author? Page 196 end. (There were also U.S. interventions in Panama and the Falkland Islands during this time.)  Your opinion?

  1. 13.Use link to the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. What provision(s) would you add to cover Indigenous Peoples, especially in light of Deloria’s group’s 20 Point Document above in question 7? Write one.